Hakim-hakim 13:15

13:15 Manoah said to the Lord’s messenger, “Please stay here awhile, ¹  so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.” ² 

Hakim-hakim 18:4

18:4 He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, ³  “He hired me and I became his priest.”

Hakim-hakim 18:20

18:20 The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group. ⁴ 

[13:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Please allow us to detain you.”

[13:15]  ² tn Heb “so we can prepare before you a young goat of the goats.”

[18:4]  ³ tn Heb “He said to them, ‘Such and such Micah has done for me.’” Though the statement is introduced and presented, at least in part, as a direct quotation (note especially “for me”), the phrase “such and such” appears to be the narrator’s condensed version of what the Levite really said.

[18:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “and went into the midst of the people.”